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![handle is hein.amindian/urgelaci0001 and id is 1 raw text is: [No. 59-Second Series-3000]
INDIAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION,
1305 ARCH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA, PA., October, 1901.
THE URGENT CASE OF THE MILLE LAC
INDIANS.
BY S. M. BROSIUS,
Washington Agent of the Indian Rights Association.
It is quite safe to state in the introduction of this article that
probably no tribe of Indians in the United States has suffered
to a greater extent by reason of unfulfilled promises and agree-
ments on the part of the United States Government than the
Mille Lac band of Chippewas, of Minnesota.
A SYNOPSIS OF THEIR HISTORY.
Under the provisions of the treaty of April 7, 1855, the
Chippewa Indians of Minnesota ceded to the United States a
large tract of land, and by further provision of the treaty certain
reservations were established, including that of the Mille Lacs.
This treaty provided for allotments of land in severalty to the
heads of families and other persons of the bands over twenty
years of age. The Mille Lac Indians, believing that their
occupancy of the reservation would be permanent, made exten-
sive improvements thereon which they occupied until they died.
Their children are now trying to retain title to these lands.
Those conversant with the history of the northwest will recall
the great Sioux outbreak of 1862, in which most of the Indians
of Minnesota and the Dakotas joined, or made demonstrations
of unrest, and among the latter were the Chippewas of Minne-
sota. The Mille Lac band of Cheppewas, however, would not
join their brethren in these hostile demonstrations, nor did they
take any part in the pillaging of the white settlers surrounding
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